Vikings-Giants Tix A Hot Item In Cold Detroit

DETROIT - DECEMBER 12: People enter Ford Field prior to the start of the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on December 12, 2010 in Detroit, Michigan. Ford Field will host the NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings on Monday December 13 after a blizzard dumped more than 20 inches of snow in parts of the Midwest causing the inflatable roof to collapse under the weight of snow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Mall of America Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. . (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)(credit: Leon Halip/Getty Images)

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It took a little more than two hours to give away free tickets to tonight’s game in Detroit. The Detroit Lions have stopped distributing free tickets to Monday night’s football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants.

The Lions gave away 30,000 tickets for the game, which was moved to Ford Field after the roof of the Metrodome collapsed Sunday morning.

Fans lined up for the tickets at the Ford Field ticket office beginning at midnight. The office opened at 8 a.m., and the tickets were gone shortly after 10 a.m.

“It’s like a once in a lifetime thing for the NFL,” said Jeff Jones, who drove to Detroit from Toledo, Ohio to get a free ticket. “It’s just great, especially in this economy.”

Vikings fans who had tickets to the originally scheduled game at the Metrodome will still get a premium seat for the game at Ford Field if they choose to get to Detroit by the 6:20 p.m. kickoff.

If you are ignorant enough to make fun of people for being enough of an NFL fan to sit outside in the freezing cold and get a ticket to a possibly historic game with the Brett Favre Saga going on, then you obviously dont know anything about Detroit, Michigan, or really whats going on in the United States today. Wake up

How can it be historic cause of Favre? I fell for that in 2005, paid almost $600 for 2 tickets at Lambeau to see his final game on Christmas against the Bears. He’s had a few more final games since then….

Per the U of M: University of Minnesota officials told the NFL that TCF Bank Stadium was shut down for the winter and would take several days to prepare for another game. Removing all the snow, figuring out how to cram 64,000 Metrodome fans into a 50,000-seat stadium, and the fact that the Giants did not bring any cold-weather gear with them from New York for what would have been a brutally frigid night game all combined to make that site problematic.

That’s why the didn’t choose TCF. Maybe you should check these things out before you get mad. And the Vikings are going to refund the tickets of anyone that can’t make it to Detriot.

The U of M pres said they couldnt get tcf ready in time for tonight. Should be interesting where they play next monday vs the bears. It better not be Detoilet again! The U would be dumb not to host next week and make some dough from the nfl and concessions etc since they are hurting financially anyway!!

So lets see here….. free tickets to see a Vikes home game in Detroit. How come no free tickets ever to see the Vikes at the Dome. 50 years of Vikes and Detroit gets free tickets. Seems outta balance. Maybe they should have rescheduled the game at Minnetonka High and given away free tickets.

Are you people really from MN to be whining like this, um @straycat, they gave tickets away so there are people in there actually watching, its not like hey let’s give these to people in MI they deserve it, helllllloooooooo we couldnt have it here!!! @Neil yes it is 6:20 on Fox